Heinz Kreutz, Large Signed Color Woodcut, 1962

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Heinz Kreutz

Frankfurt am Main 1923 - 2016 Penzberg

black-gray-light red, 1962

Color woodcut on Japanese paper

Signed and dated … Read more Heinz Kreutz

Frankfurt am Main 1923 - 2016 Penzberg

black-gray-light red, 1962

Color woodcut on Japanese paper

Signed and dated (19) 62 in pencil lower right

limited bottom left 1/18

Representation: 16.5 x 61.5 cm

Sheet size: 31.5 x 70 cm

good condition

Catalog raisonné 56



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Heinz Kreutz completed training as a photographer. During the Second World War, he was seriously injured in a hospital after the Battle of Stalingrad. from 1944 onwards he began to work artistically, inspired by cigarette pictures with “degenerate art” that a visitor smuggled into the hospital. In the years after the war, Kreutz worked as a white binder and occasionally as a photographer and from 1948 he turned to abstract painting. In 1950 he created the stained glass for the Evangelical Church in Ochshausen. with the help of a private scholarship, he studied in Paris in 1951, had a studio here and discovered the Impressionists. In 1952, together with Otto Greis, Karl Otto Götz and Bernard Schultze, he was one of the founding members of the Quadriga artist group, with which German painting regained connection with the international artistic avant-garde in the post-war period. The exhibition was originally supposed to be called “New Expressionists”. On the opening evening, the four artists' joint exhibition became the Quadriga. The location, the Zimmergalerie Franck (1949 to 1961) in Frankfurt am Main, consisted of two rooms in the private apartment of Klaus Franck, an insurance employee, due to the post-war period.

At the beginning of Informel, Kreutz's paintings were characterized by their violently wild formal language and a spatial depth staggered in layers. Similar to Otto Greis, in the later 1950s he sought a way out of the formal language of Tachist painting and found a concentrated and clear painterly language, particularly through the study of Japanese calligraphy. In addition to his painting, Kreutz found his own way of dealing with form and color in his drawings.

In 1960, Kreutz studied in Paris and in 1967 received a scholarship to the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. from 1971 to 1973 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Design in Offenbach am Main. Heinz Kreutz lived and worked in Antdorf in Upper Bavaria since 1976. In 2002, Kreutz and the other Quadriga founders were awarded the Binding Culture Prize. In the late 80s of his life he stopped painting for fear of not being able to continue to live up to his standards.

Kreutz was married to Magda (1926–2005). She later married his friend Rolf Hans. Heinz Kreutz died on December 17, 2016 in Penzberg. This piece has an attribution mark,
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